All this is very fun and most likely very handy to be able to do but every time me get overly excited that finally I will be able to run Chromium as Spot then it is about some cute char one can make

No criticism guys.

Could we maybe within reasonable time get back on running puppy as spot. ?

No hurry, what about Monday next week or so

In another thread I learned that Chromium refuse to work if it is root.

So we need to get a reliable way to tell it we are not root running it.

Now I have a version that Terryphi made and all kudos to him and others for doing such hacking but it would also be good if we could get it to run without hacking it. They upload upgrades when they find bugs and to wait for some Dev to hack it again is not a good solution.

Is it related to ask. What is the difference between Spot and Fido?

Latest woof seems to include Fido? Could that help out with running an unaltered Chromium or is Spot the most likely way to satisfy the No Evil Peeeeple at Google?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Could we maybe within reasonable time get back on running puppy as spot. ?

No hurry, what about Monday next week or so
...
Is it related to ask. What is the difference between Spot and Fido?
...
Latest woof seems to include Fido?...

This is Monday now.

I think that Run puppy as spot is deprecated or so now.

Difference between spot and fido
spot is the older one, used for hiawatha webserver
fido is the new one, can be used to run puppy as fido. Highly experimental. Barry has given the tools and we can play with it.

Yes, the official way to run non-root is fido
Latest wary will give you the choice to run it as root or as fido. This choice has to be made once and there is no way of return.

Yes, the official way to run non-root is fido
Latest wary will give you the choice to run it as root or as fido. This choice has to be made once and there is no way of return.

Cheers
fido

Fido do what fido says he will do. Run as non root

So will Chromium then accept Puppy as trusty linux distro if I present myself as Fido

I have fido on Wary and Snow and Ice? and maybe one more not sure.

Then I have Spot on Browsersafe by Micko and Spot from a thread earlier.

So I have tried to use it but on my level it was not easy at all.

But what you say here " there is no way of return." that is a truth only for that install of that browser. AFAIK you can always do ctrl+alt-bckspace and then do su root something and then install a browser that accept to be run from root. So one don't have to reboot only go out to promt.

No big deal. The problem is to get all the permissions right what it is allowed to do and not allowed to.

Wary RC is the latest Fido enabled release and Barry is not recommending the use of Fido - yet
(however it is there for examination, experimentation and development)
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02299_________________YinYana AI BuddhismLast edited by Lobster on Mon 23 May 2011, 16:59; edited 1 time in total

But what you say here " there is no way of return." that is a truth only for that install of that browser.
AFAIK you can always do ctrl+alt-backspace and then do su root something and then install a browser for root to use.

So one don't have to reboot only go out to prompt and tell one want to be root and old trusty puppy looks normal again?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

But what you say here " there is no way of return." that is a truth only for that install of that browser.
AFAIK you can always do ctrl+alt-backspace and then do su root something and then install a browser for root to use.

So one don't have to reboot only go out to prompt and tell one want to be root and old trusty puppy looks normal again?

If you're in spot, you can probably just type "exit" and be back in root. Check using "whoami"

What is more problematic is that one are not allowed to just start firefox. Most likely one need to install FF and give Spot or Fido the permission to use it first.

I guess that is how it worked on the Ms Windows Vista too? Only that that was some two years ago and I fail to remember such details.

And here is the Catch 22. Fido and Spot is not officially supported yet. Built in only so Devs can have a go and test it out and fix all the bugs so us that are inpatient have none to ask how to. Too early

My worst fear is that Spot is too restricted compared to any other user on Ubuntu so that people migrating will feel had for not getting a real thing only a Fido or Spot that behave in a way them not accustom to?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

What is more problematic is that one are not allowed to just start firefox. Most likely one need to install FF and give Spot or Fido the permission to use it first.

I guess that is how it worked on the Ms Windows Vista too? Only that that was some two years ago and I fail to remember such details.

And here is the Catch 22. Fido and Spot is not officially supported yet. Built in only so Devs can have a go and test it out and fix all the bugs so us that are inpatient have none to ask how to. Too early

My worst fear is that Spot is too restricted compared to any other user on Ubuntu so that people migrating will feel had for not getting a real thing only a Fido or Spot that behave in a way them not accustom to?

FF and Chromium should work in Spot or Root. The .mozilla folder needs to be in $HOME, but it starts. (then again, I installed FF from a download onto my HD)

After which, it is seamless, you wouldn't know if you are running the
browser as root or spot. Except your download and save files will be in
a directory owned by spot. Or if you make an outside directory, spot
needs permissions.

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